The Kelvin Aqueduct on the Forth and Clyde in Glasgow, currently devoid of water while a leak is being fixed. This aqueduct, dating from 1787, is 136m long and 19m high, and was built to carry the Forth and Clyde Canal across the River Kelvin. It uses three feet of puddling clay to make it waterproof, and it is presumably this layer of clay which is being repaired.
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Today's big run took me past the Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill and by the looks of it someone needs to call Jim Taggart - Christmas may never be the same again!
The former Methodist Central Halls on Maryhill Road in Glasgow. Built in the 1920s, it closed in the 1970s and is now a community space.
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Maryhill Burgh Halls in Glasgow. Built around 1878, it was designed in a Dutch Renaissance style by Duncan McNaughtan. This building is now part of a local community centre.
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An unusual view of the Maryhill Locks in the northwest of Glasgow. Part of the Forth and Clyde Canal, the locks were constructed in the 1780s. They're currently been worked on, so one of the basins is now empty of water, giving a change to see parts of them you'd never usually get to see. I bet there's some interesting stuff hidden in all that mud!
The original building of East Park School in the Maryhill area of Glasgow. The blonde building with the bay wndows is part of the converted cottage where William Mitchell founded the East Park Home for Infirm Children in 1874, while the tower seems to be a later addition. Over 150 years later and the site has greatly expanded, but East Park is still providing education and care to children with complex learning requirements.
Love all the gables on this Victorian villa on Sandbank Street in the Maryhill area of Glasgow. It was originally the parsonage for the neighbouring St George's Episcopal Church, which has since been demolished.
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Former Soldiers' Home on Maryhill Road in Glasgow. Designed by Malcolm Stark and Rowntree, and built opposite the Wyndford Barracks in the 1890s, it served as a respite house for soldiers and their wives. For a small fee, soldiers could rent a quiet room in this building, and newly wed ones could spend their honeymoon night there. This photo was taken a couple of years ago, and it has largely been lying empty since then.
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I love a set of windows which climb a wall with the internal stairs! These are on a former church in the Maryhill area of Glasgow.
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